The Iranian Army launched a large-scale drone drill in Semnan province on Tuesday January 5th. The drill was attended by Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi. Continue reading
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USAF Moves MQ-9s to Romania
The U.S. Air Force has based MQ-9 Reaper aircraft and approximately 90 Airmen to the 71st Air Base in Campia Turzii Air Base, Romania, to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in support of NATO operations. Continue reading
uAvionix Announces Launch Customer Airbus Zephyr for ping200X and truFYX
uAvionix has announced that launch customer Airbus has successfully integrated and flown the uAvionix ping200X ADS-B transponder and truFYX GPS throughout its Zephyr High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) 2020 flight test campaign in Arizona. Continue reading
AAI Gets $36.7M US Army Shadow Support Contract
AAI Corp., doing business as Textron Systems, Hunt Valley, Maryland, was awarded a $36,680,072 fixed-price-incentive contract for contractor logistics support for the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems for $8BN
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and FLIR Systems, Inc. jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire FLIR in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $8.0 billion. Continue reading
One-Handed Controller to Debut at CES 2021
Russian start-up Knuckles-5 has developed a fully one-handed controller for drones and video games that will make its official debut next month at CES 2021. Continue reading
High Tech Campus Eindhoven Launches EU Drone Field Lab
High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE) initiates the rollout of a new generation of advanced autonomous aviation digital infrastructure. This will benefit the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) of cities in a safe, secure and regulated way. Continue reading
US Department of Agriculture Selects Draganfly Commander
Draganfly Inc. has announced that the US Department of Agriculture has selected the use of the Draganfly Commander drones to do phenotyping and other related data collection and analysis. Continue reading